Eurodicautom

...funcionarios, magistrados y representantes estatales.

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Acusación en un juicio político.

Be careful. "Juicio político" is usually based on political issues which Government classifies as felonious (it's a trumped-up charge based on twisting laws and actions around until both meet at a vortex defined by the powers that be as "political crime"). Impeachment is not for a "political crime". Impeachment is a challenge to the honesty of a person expected to be honest beyond tolerances (an elected political official, in the case of Clinton for example), and which challenge, if succesful, requires by law or solid tradition that the person successfully impeached be shorn of his political attributes. It seems that impeachment procedures that have a good chance of ultimate success are settled by resignation of the impeached (i.e. Richard Nixon, who after consensus expressed by the Armed Forces was advised by General Haigh to resign rather than face impeachment procedure in time of war). In a political trial, resignation does not save the accused from further prosecution. Please note also that an impeachment procedure cannot be called a "kangaroo" court, either (which would be one form of qualifying it as a "juicio").

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Note added at 2002-09-02 13:57:56 (GMT) Post-grading
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Andrew Johnson (southerner who, as constitutionally elected Vice President of a materially divided United States suceeded assassinated President Lincoln) was the only President actually subjected to an impeachment procedure. He was not found to have been guilty of the charges (meaning that he was \"acquitted\", as some historians word it) by a difference one vote in the Senate (Presided over, for such an occasion, by the Chief Justice of the United States ... which may be the reason why some called it a trial or \"juicio\"). The deciding vote was exercised by an ill Senator who was brought in on a stretcher specifically for that balloting moment. In US history Congress has impeached (successfully formulated charges against) 11 oficials, of whom four have been \"convicted\". Approval of the charges against a President, and therefore an impeachment decision, requires the vote in favor of two-thirds of Senators forming a quorum. This whole procedure is far from a \"Juicio político\". At most and to be precise, I would call the procedure from start to finish \"enjuciamiento polítcos\". There\'s a subtle but important difference in the Spanish-language wording.

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Note added at 2002-09-02 14:07:14 (GMT) Post-grading
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Opps!! Make that next-to-last line \"enjuiciamiento político\" -- with one more \"i\" in the word \"enjuiciamieto\", and without \"s\" for plural in the word \"político\".